Audio or Text to Speech to HTD whole house audio system?

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Anyone play audio from Home Assistant to the HTD system? I’m thinking audio files or speech to text.

HTD isn’t a media player, so I was wondering what people used to do text to speech from HA? I’d like to be able to play alerts to certain zones. For example, when the patio door gets left open, have “The patio door has been left open you rotten kids, please close it now!” play on the patio speakers. Or have an “alarm” play in the kids bedrooms when it is time to get up, again, through Home Assistant.

How do you all set this up with HTD? I’m tagging people in the HTD thread rather than cluttering up that thread with a different question.

@hikirsch @Markus99 @amit1 @Noobitious @cowboyup @harshl @XSilver @FordPrefect @BearClaw48 @Coffeaphy

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Here I’m tagging the rest of you in the HTD thread as I can only tag 10 per post.

@stevebelisle @cazwax @PatrickD07 @lordratner @fxlt @schlick7 @kingfetty @3beezer

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I have done text to speech announcements over HTD for years. First in HomeSeer and now in Home Assistant.

In Home Assistant, I use a super simple dashboard like the following to initiate the announcements with a simple press from our phones. There are more than this, but you get the idea:

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Each of these buttons triggers an automation that does something like the following:

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I am using Chromecast Audio as the player, which works great, though they are not sold anymore, they are still well supported if you can get your hands on one or use something else with similar capabilities.

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Yeah, I don’t have a Chromecast Audio. I think I was one of the first back in the day to have the Chromecast and then I got a beta version of the Chromebook for free somehow. No clue how that worked out.

I do have some AirPlay devices, I wonder if anyone does that somehow.

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This looks promising:

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This may work to send audio from Home Assistant to an AirPlay device, although I’m not sure if you have to have an AppleTV or not. I’ll have to test it later when I’m home.